College Football Playoff

[Xville]

Why am I surprised that they have already turned this into a pissing match?

http://jonesinforsports.com/2012/06/04/leave-it-to-them-to-turn-it-into-a-negative/

[xubrew]

from the article...


In my opinion, go to 16 teams, use the current bcs formula to rank the teams 1-16 ( look the formula is ridiculously hard to understand but at the end of the season it seems to pass the eye test pretty well, plus it is a good mix of human and computer) but put back the strength of schedule in the formula so that maybe we will get a good out of conference game every once in a while.

I think a sixteen team playoff with ten conference champs (now that the WAC has folded) and six at-larges would generate close to a billion dollars in revenue a year. If they share revenue the way they do for basketball with half being divided evenly among all 120 FBS members, and the other half being devided among the units, that's close to $31.25 million per unit, per conference. If it's all about money, this is clearly the format that would result in the largest amount. The Sun Belt would net more money for their one team than all of the BCS participants net put together under the old system. Imagine how much a league like the SEC would make that would send multiple teams, and whose teams would play in multiple games.

On top of that, all 120 members would be getting on average roughly $4.2 million a year whether they made the playoff or not.

I think it is about money, but that the powers that be are too stupid to realize how to make the largest amount of it.

[LA Muskie]

I think it is about money, but that the powers that be are too stupid to realize how to make the largest amount of it.

They don't care about maximizing the pot in general. They care about maximizing their members' takes and odds.

[waggy]

Hinton's (or Delaney's) point is that a conference championship is not based on subjective criteria.

Everyone wants a playoff with four best teams, but can't agree on which ones (http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/19258419/everyone-wants-a-playoff-with-the-four-best-teams-but-they-dont-all-mean-the-same-thing)